Bill Dedman, an American journalist, is an investigative reporter for news site msnbc.com and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

In 1989, Dedman received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for The Color of Money, a series of articles in Bill Kovach's Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination by mortgage lenders in middle-income neighborhoods.

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Dedman grew up in Red Bank, Tennessee. He graduated from the Baylor School in Chattanooga, and attended Washington University in St. Louis.

He started in journalism at age 16 as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times. He was a newspaper reporter for the The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg, Missouri; newspapers in Chattanooga and Knoxville; and for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press, and has written for The New York Times.

In 2006 he joined msnbc.com, where he has written about topics including firefighter deaths, interrogations at the Guantanamo detention facility, and the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark. He is also the moderator of the Open Channel investigative blog for NBC News and msnbc.com.

Dedman has taught advanced reporting as an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, Northwestern University and the University of Maryland, and has taught seminars for many news organizations and associations. He served for six years on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors. He also created Power Reporting, a web site of databases to assist journalists in research.

He is married to health and science reporter Pam Belluck of The New York Times.^[1]

External links[link]

• msnbc.com profile
• Open Channel investigative blog for NBC News and msnbc.com

Articles[link]

• The Color of Money, Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 1–5, 1988.
• "Palin e-mails reveal a powerful 'first dude'", msnbc.com, February 5, 2010
• "The Clarks: an American story of wealth, scandal and mystery", msnbc.com, February 26, 2010
• "Clinic with two doors, a symbol of two-tier care", msnbc.com, November 23, 2009
• "New anti-terror weapon: Hand-held lie detector", msnbc.com, April 9, 2008
• "Late inspections of bridges put travelers at risk", msnbc.com, January 30, 2008
• "Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis", msnbc.com, March 2, 2007
• "Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly)", msnbc.com, June 21, 2007
• "Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tactics", msnbc.com, October 23, 2006
• "Can the '20th hijacker' of Sept. 11 stand trial?", msnbc.com, October 24, 2006
• "Flaws found in firefighters' last line of defense", msnbc.com, February 5, 2007
• "CDC's fire investigation unit: the 'No Go Team'", msnbc.com, February 6, 2007
• Fire Response series, on firefighters taking longer to get to fires, Boston Globe, 2005.
• Speed Trap: Who gets a ticket, who gets a break?, series on racial profiling by police, Boston Globe, 2003-2004.
• Deadly Lessons: School shooters tell why, PDF file, series on Secret Service study of school shootings, Chicago Sun-Times, 2000.

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